The phrase "put a stranglehold on" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to say that someone or something has a controlling influence over someone or something else, often preventing them from succeeding. For example, you could say, "The current restrictions have put a stranglehold on businesses in the area."
He drove the green at the 376-yard, par-4 No. 4, where he two-putted for his first birdie, and put a stranglehold on the field by opening up a six-stroke lead with six one-putt greens in a front-nine 32.
Nord Stream 1 and 2, bypassing Ukraine (and Poland), will put a stranglehold on Kiev.
About 200 trucks, taxis and tractors put a stranglehold on the center of Bremen, Germany.
hotels, the adult home and the economy put a stranglehold on this block," he said.
Specifically, Rome could start untangling the bureaucracy that ensnared Ikea and put a stranglehold on thousands of smaller Italian companies.
If you lack self-control and want to put a stranglehold on your spending, use a debit card instead.
We aren't "camping," one woman says in the film, putting a stranglehold on the camera with her crazy eyes.
For all the beauty and power of "Road to Perdition," there's not much spontaneity in it, and the movie's flawless surface puts a stranglehold on meaning.
Patent holders could also sue the websites that host the software that enables the printers to manufacture the objects, but this, too, could stymie perfectly legal inventions and end up putting a stranglehold on innovation, he said.
Representative Charlie Melancon, Democrat of Louisiana, suspects that a proposed government-run health insurance plan will be another unaffordable "entitlement program" that puts a stranglehold on the federal budget and on future generations.
On Move Me, the album's biggest pop moment, she puts a stranglehold on complacency as guitars crash around her. "So much is repetition/We mimic old decisions/And walk the same patch jut because/We know where it will lead," she sings.
